Patricia Paay

Patricia Paay (1982)

Patricia Anglaia Margareth Paaij (born April 7, 1949 in Rotterdam ), better known as Patricia Paay , is a Dutch singer , radio presenter , model and TV personality with Indonesian roots. She is known in the Netherlands for her musical career that spanned more than four decades. She can be seen regularly on Dutch television and featured in the Dutch tabloids.

Personal life

She met Adam Curry and retired from music in the Netherlands in the mid-1980s to work in the United States and in the development of Adam's career. She now lives in the UK . Their daughter Christina Curry lives in Los Angeles while her ex-husband Adam lives in Austin , Texas . Paay sang many of the popular music remixes of the Stars on 45 and was a member of the spin-off series Star Sisters with her sister Yvonne Keeley .

Career

She is very popular in the Netherlands and perhaps her best-known song in English is her 1977 cover version of the Robert Knight hit Everlasting Love from her album The Lady Is a Champ . The song was written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden and is best known for the band The Love Affair from 1967. A hit in the German charts was the title Who's that Lady with my man , also from 1977. Her first German-language song Record Today I see him / Pictures and Letters was released in 1968 under the name Patty Pay .

In 1984 Paay was the first glamor model in the Dutch edition of Playboy . The second time was in 1996 and in November 2009 it was announced that she would be photographed for the December 2009 issue of the Dutch version of the magazine at the age of 60. It was the third time she was in front of the camera for Playboy .

In 2008 Paay was a member of the jury for the Dutch casting show Holland’s Got Talent, known in Germany as Das Supertalent . She currently works for the TV station SBS 6 . In the past she was also a member of the jury of Idols for the Dutch version of DSDS and the Dutch version of X Factor .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	title	NL	Remarks
1977	The Lady Is A Champ	NL9 (9 weeks) NL
1983	Dreamworld	NL37 (3 weeks) NL
1995	Time Of My Life	NL74 (5 weeks) NL
2019	The Golden Years Of Dutch Pop Music	NL96 (1 week) NL

More albums

1969: Portret van Patricia (as Patricia)
1975: Beam Of Light
1978: Malibu Touch
1978: The Best Of Patricia Paay
1981: Playmate
1995: Original Hit Recordings
2002: Holland's Glory

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
year	Title album	DE	NL	BE ^F	Remarks
Patricia
1967	Ever Bent Rivet Hip	-	NL12 (12 weeks) NL	-
1967	Wat Moet Ik Doen?	-	NL36 (2 weeks) NL	-
1968	Corriamo	-	NL33 (6 weeks) NL	-	with Isabella Iannetti
Patricia Paay
1976	Some Day My Prince Will Come The Lady Is A Champ	-	NL22 (6 weeks) NL	BE ^F21 (2 weeks) BE ^F
1976	Now (Is The Moment) The Lady Is A Champ	-	NL20 (8 weeks) NL	BE ^F16 (5 weeks) BE ^F
1977	Who's That Lady With My Man The Lady Is A Champ	DE11 (10 weeks) DE	NL2 (11 weeks) NL	BE ^F2 (11 weeks) BE ^F
1977	Livin 'Without You The Lady Is A Champ	-	NL5 (11 weeks) NL	BE ^F7 (8 weeks) BE ^F
1978	Everlasting Love The Lady Is a Champ	-	-	BE ^F25 (1 week) BE ^F
1978	Malibu Malibu Touch	-	NL14 (6 weeks) NL	BE ^F26 (4 weeks) BE ^F
1979	The Best Friend I Know Malibu Touch	-	NL26 (4 weeks) NL	-	with Yvonne Keeley
1979	You Make It Alright	-	NL25 (5 weeks) NL	-	with Jacques Kloes
1980	Maybe	-	NL31 (3 weeks) NL	-
1981	Who Let The Heartache In	-	NL9 (9 weeks) NL	BE ^F10 (10 weeks) BE ^F
1981	Saturday Nights Playmate	-	NL15 (7 weeks) NL	BE ^F7 (11 weeks) BE ^F
1982	Tomorrow Dreamworld	-	NL6 (9 weeks) NL	BE ^F3 (9 weeks) BE ^F
1983	Solitaire Dreamworld	-	NL16 (5 weeks) NL	BE ^F5 (7 weeks) BE ^F

Web links

Commons : Patricia Paay - Collection of Images

PATRICIA PAAY in the Internet Movie Database (English)
PATRICIA PAAY at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Indische vrouwen in het Nederlandse culturele leven ( nl ) In: Kunst en cultuur / Arbeid en Economische zelfstandigheid / Scholing en leren . Center for the Divorce of Migrants. Retrieved on January 10, 2015: “De komst van ongeveer 350,000 Nederlands-Indian repatrianten blijkt een verrijking voor het culturele leven in Nederland. […] Verder know us natuurlijk Georgina Verbaan , Sylvie Meis , Patty Brard , Sandra Reemer and Patricia Paay. "
^ Richard Moriarty, 'Cougar strips for Playboy . In: The Sun , November 24, 2009.
↑ ^a ^b Chart sources: DE Albums NL Singles NL BEF

personal data
SURNAME	Paay, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paaij, Patricia Anglaia Margareth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch singer, radio presenter, glamor model and TV personality
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam , South Holland , Netherlands

[1] Indische vrouwen in het Nederlandse culturele leven ( nl ) In: Kunst en cultuur / Arbeid en Economische zelfstandigheid / Scholing en leren . Center for the Divorce of Migrants. Retrieved on January 10, 2015: “De komst van ongeveer 350,000 Nederlands-Indian repatrianten blijkt een verrijking voor het culturele leven in Nederland. […] Verder know us natuurlijk Georgina Verbaan , Sylvie Meis , Patty Brard , Sandra Reemer and Patricia Paay. "

[2] Richard Moriarty, 'Cougar strips for Playboy . In: The Sun , November 24, 2009.

[charts-3] Chart sources: DE Albums NL Singles NL BEF